Syria, rebels in Idlib raise their shot on Turkey: a bridge on M4 destroyed
Objective: to prevent joint TAF-Russian patrols from passing. Jihadists need immediate support against SAA pressure and coronavirus. UN and ICRC call for total truce.
Syria, Russia-Turkey joint patrols in Idlib are not working
Second activity on M4 reduced as the first for security reasons. Moscow gets nervous and intimated to Ankara: Solve it now or we will. Meanwhile Damascus takes advantage of it.
Syria, is Turkey’s parallel diplomacy in Idlib starting to work?
First TAF patrol, without Russia, inside the region along the M4. Damascus sends columns of tanks north against Ankara, while facing the Coronavirus "in its own way".
Syria, the “game” between Turkey-Damascus from Idlib moves to Ain Issa?
SAA reinforcements sent to the city. Does Assad just want to show his muscles or is there anything else? Meanwhile, Ankara tries to unlock the stall on joint patrols with Russia along M4.
Syria, hard times for Turkey in Idlib: allied militias become a problem
Ankara concerned about the rebel threats to joint patrols with Russia on the M4, but cannot act to not lose their support. Damascus takes advantage of this to keep the stalemate.
Syria: pro-Iran militias, under attack in Deir Ezzor, seal Abu Kamal
PMF, with morale on the ground for Coronavirus and continuous raids suffered, fear spies. Meanwhile, Turkey still threatens Damascus to reactivate Spring Shield, but starts patrols with Russia.
Syria: Turkey, as expected, gives up to Russia and signs the truce
Stop to the Spring Shield maneuvers in Idlib, commitment for humanitarian aid and joint patrols in the buffer zone, along the M4. Erdogan has no choice but to bow to Putin.
Syria, Turkey declares war on Damascus with the Spring Shield operation
Ankara raids Idlib, Hama and Aleppo, threatening intervention on the ground. Russia takes away "immunity" from the TAF and awaits Putin-Erdogan meeting, which seeks to get closer to NATO.
Syria, Isis opens Wilayat al-Sham west of the Euphrates
Damascus has always underestimated the Daesh pockets resistance in the Badia al-Sham desert and now risks paying the consequences. Furthermore, the SAA is engaged in Hama and Idlib.
Syria, post-ISIS reconstruction began in the east while north is on chaos
Works in Raqqa (restoration of the Church of the Martyrs), Deir Ezzor and Hasakah, while the SDF hunt the Islamic State. In Idlib the SAA conquers Khan Sheikhoun, but the crisis helps Daesh.